The Dominican Republic Property

The Dominican Republic is a Latin American country that currently occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island called Hispaniola. It shares a border with the Republic of Haiti, making it the only Caribbean island split by two governments. Hispaniola is the second-largest of the Greater Antilles islands, and lies west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica.

Dominicans sometimes refer to their country as "Kiskeya" or Quisqueya, a name for Hispaniola that is debated to have been used by indigenous Taнno people meaning "mother of all lands". Other names for Hispanola are Bohio and Haiti, which means "Land of the High Mountains" The territory under the Dominican Republic's control has the highest mountain in the Caribbean.

For much of the twentieth century, the government of the Dominican Republic was unsettled and mostly non-representative. Since the death of military dictator Rafael Leуnidas Trujillo in 1961, the Dominican Republic has moved toward representative democracy.